Cornelius H. Evans House

The Cornelius H. Evans House is located on Warren Street in downtown Hudson, New York, United States.

[2] Two and a half stories high and five bays wide, the house is faced in brick with sandstone window trim.

Above it is a mansard roof with gabled dormer windows shingled in fish-scale polychrome slate, pierced by two brick chimneys on the eastern side.

Scrolled archways lead into the flanking spaces, and the floor is decorated in a raised-pattern wallpaper with a pattern resembling tooled leather.

The molded woodwork, white marble mantels, stained glass, brass doorknobs and interior shutters are all original.

Its architect is unknown, but it shows the influence of James Renwick, who in the years before had pioneered the mansard-roofed buildings that evolved into the Second Empire style with the original Corcoran Gallery in Washington and, closer to Hudson, Main Building at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.

Sales of its major product, Evans India Pale Ale, were so high that the company opened its own bottling plant next to the brewery in 1889.

[2] Cornelius Evans succeeded his father as a civic leader as well, serving as a director of National Hudson City Bank, as Robert had.

Five years later that owner sold it to Congregation Anshe Emeth, a local synagogue, for use as a house of worship and community center.